Magic Wand Corporation manufactures a range of equipment used by magician worldwide. The
global popularity of a series of children’s books describing the formative years of a budding wizard
and his various escapades at wizard school has driven unprecedented sales growth in the magical
equipment market.
The current IT systems at Magic Wand are struggling to cope with the high volumes in this growth
market. The CIO wants to persuade the board of Magic Wand Corporation to make a greater
investment in the IT systems to cope with the new higher transaction volumes. On of the key
components the CIOs wants to include when he approaches the board is a description of the current
problems and how they may be addressed from an architectural point of view.
As the High Architect of Magic Wand Corporation, the CIO has delegated the task of creating a vision
for the future Architecture to you.
Which of the following answers best describes how TOGAF recommends delivering an Architecture
Vision for the CIO?

A.
Firstly, I ensure there is a Request for Architecture Work from the CIO. Then I ensure that there is
recognition for the architecture vision project by following any project management and
programmed management frameworks used within the organization. I would identify the key
stakeholders and engage with them to understand and document their concerns and high-level
requirements. This would result in a stakeholder map used to support other deliverables such as the
Architecture Vision, a Communications plan and a Statement of Architecture Work. I would then
identify the business goals and strategic drivers of the organization and define any enterprise or
project specific constraints such as time and resources. I would then define the business capabilities
of the organization needed to fulfill those business goals and drivers and their readiness for change.
Once complete, I would define the scope, confirm the architecture and business principles and
develop the Architecture Vision. Following this, I would define the business case for the architecture
project, assess the business risks and produce a risk mitigation plan. I would then define a plan of
enterprise architecture work to meet the scope in the desired time line and the resources required
and secure the support of stakeholders.

B.
I would start by ensuring there is a Request for Architecture Work from the sponsor (the CIO). I
would then create a project to define and deliver the architecture vision and the necessary outputs.
The outputs include an approved Statement of Architecture Work, refined statements of Businesses
Principles, Business Goals and Business Drivers, Architecture Principles, a Capability Assessment, a
Tailored Architecture Framework, an Architecture vision, a Communications plan. The Statement of
Architecture Work needs to be clear on the scope of architectural work, the resources needed to
complete the work and amount of time it would take to complete the work assuming the scope of
architectural work is agreed and that all the resources required are available. The final step would be
to agree the Statement of Architectural Work with stakeholders confirming the scope, schedule and
confirming the availability of the necessary resources.

C.
I would start by establishing the architecture project and follow the appropriate project
management method. I would identify stakeholders their concerns and business requirements then
confirm and elaborate the business goals, business drivers and constraints. I would then evaluate the
business capabilities and readiness for business transformation and define the scope. I would then
develop the architecture vision, define the target architecture value proposition, KPIs and identify
and mitigate all risks associated with the transformation effort. Finally, I would develop an
Enterprise Architecture Plan and Statement of Work and secure approval from the relevant
stakeholders.

D.
I would approach this by defining and establishing the architecture team and governance. This
would be followed by agreeing and establishing the architecture principles. I would select and
customize an architecture framework changing any terminology and selecting the right phases and
customizing the structure of content and outputs from the chosen method. Finally I would select and
implement and architecture tools. The outputs from this work would include an Organization Model
for Enterprise Architecture, a Tailored Architecture Framework including method and content, the
Architecture Principles, an initial architecture repository, restatement or references to business
principles, business goals and business driver, a request for architecture work and the governance
framework.